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TILEC Seminar: Niamh Dunne (LSE)

Date: Time: 10:45 Location: ONLINE Meeting

The Ambit of Antitrust
Or: What We Talk About When We Talk About Competition Law

Contemporary competition law is undergoing a much-discussed period of self-reflection and reconfiguration. Yet introspection and often highly polarised debates about goals and methods have long marked the competition law enterprise on both sides of the Atlantic. This paper explores and contexualises the current—and thus recurrent—debate. It explains why competition law is uniquely prone to quasi-existential deliberations of this sort, and what is at stake in such discussions, past and present. Ultimately, the objective is straightforward: to reveal “what we talk about when we talk about competition law”.


Speaker: Niamh Dunne (LSE)

Niamh Dunne is an Associate Professor, teaching in the areas of competition and EU law. Before coming to the LSE in September 2015, she was a Lecturer at King's College London, and a Fellow in Law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She has also worked in competition enforcement for the Competition Authority of Ireland, and as a consultant in competition policy, primarily for the OECD. She holds law degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA, PhD), NYU School of Law (LLM) and King's College London (MA). She is qualified as a solicitor in Ireland and in England & Wales (both non-practising), and as an attorney in New York State.

 Niamh's research interests encompass, broadly, the areas of competition policy and market regulation. Work to date has explored the relationship between competition law and economic regulation; public and private aspects of antitrust enforcement; EU internal market liberalisation; and aspects of competition policy in the digital economy.


Host: Inge Graef

 

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